response to your issue concerning the XForms Working draft raised during Last Call

Your issue concerning the XForms Working draft raised during Last Call
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms-editor/2002Feb/0002.html

was processed by the XForms Working Group.
XForms WG Response:

Hi Thomas,

The Working Group has solicited input from a number of experts in the  areas
of research and professional survey/polling areas.

The general direction we've taken is for a general-purpose solution that can
be used to build more specialized tools.

As a specific example, I believe the scenario you outlined below could be
constructed out of the existing components in XForms.

For instance, the XML instance data to capture the input data could have
separate 'slots' for the user choice-from-the-list and reported answer...

<research>
...
  <question number="4">
    <userChoice/>
    <reportedAnswer>N/A</reportedAnswer>
  </question>
...
</research>

This represents a question where the user didn't select a predefined choice,
but rather chose the option "not applicable".

Thus, an element <userChoice>, mapped directly to a list, is not required,
but all the elements <reportedAnswer> are required. This could be done with
a single line...

<bind ref="//reportedAnswer" required="true"/>

Another option is to use an XML Schema union, as you suggested.

For the user interface, a form control <selectOne> could present the
specific choices for that question, while other user interface, say <button>
with a <setValue> XForms Action attached, could ensure the reportedAnswer
gets populated.






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Received on Tuesday, 16 April 2002 06:15:25 UTC